Azure VM pricing question

mij2020 366 Reputation points
2022-05-04T13:43:01.763+00:00

Hello,
One of my VM's for last month cost the below.
I'm struggling to work out what each part is for.
I expected to see 1 item for the compute cost and one item for the OS licence cost. but I seem to have 2 compute cost and 1 OS licence cost.
I understand no cost for SQL as we have hybrid. But why is there 2 compute amounts?

Virtual Machines Ev3 Series VM E8 v3/E8s v3 203.91
Virtual Machines Ev3 Series Windows VM E8 v3/E8s v3 183.78
Virtual Machines Licenses Windows Server 8 vCPU VM License 131.34
Virtual Machines Licenses SQL Server Azure Hybrid Benefit Enterprise Edition 0

Thanks

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  1. mij2020 366 Reputation points
    2022-05-06T15:36:00.01+00:00

    I found out that these VM's had reservations applied to them. The change is the point in time where it moved from a regular meter type onto a discounted reservation instance!

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  2. kobulloc-MSFT 23,496 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-05-06T23:57:09.483+00:00

    Hello, @mij2020 !

    Thank you very much for the update! It makes sense that the switch from a standard VM to an Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance would generate two very similar looking charges on your bill. Thank you again for following up!

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